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Excerpt from Intimacies of Court and Society: An Unconventional Narrative of Unofficial Days
But while we felt almost sure, there was still the slip that can come between the cup and the lip, and that morning, after he took the early express to Wash ington, I was so excited I could not stay indoors. I ordered my horse and rode like mad through the park my pretty bay Dolly seemed to understand and tore around for two hours until She stopped panting and dripping with sweat and gave me a look of gentle reproach. Back I went after lunch, this time for a walk, and there my husband found me late in the afternoon. He tried to look non-committal, to tease me a little, and began, The President said -then stopped for one tantalizing second before he drew my head down and whispered in my ear The President said I must tell you that every American embassy is American territory, and if you have a son born over there it will not prevent him from being President of the United States himself some day. He took me in his arms there in the shadows, but before two or three astonished lookers-ou who thought, I suppose, that we were just engaged, and I whispered back, If I dared, I would write to that dear man the President and tell him I Should like to kiss him the first time I see him.
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